Profile: Catherine Caldwell-Harris

Psychology & Anthropology

Options Volunteer Basis, Potential for Academic Credit Overview You will assist a psychology professor in internet research to provide background for teaching materials that integrate real-world topics, psychology and anthropology. One assignment being developed is that students will write a short story that foregrounds psychological and anthropological concepts. What you will do during this internship: […]

Psychology

Options Volunteer Basis, Potential for UROP Funding, Potential for Academic Credit Overview Project: Use your fluent Japanese to study emotion-language interaction Speakers who are not fully proficient in a second language report experiencing reduced emotional resonances when they use that language. We wish to establish the strength of emotional arousal when college students who are […]

Psychology

Options Volunteer Basis, Potential for UROP Funding, Potential for Academic Credit Overview Project: Learn how to analyze psychophysiological data Psychologists and neuroscientists gain insight into emotional arousal and cognitive effort by measuring physical changes in the body such as skin conductance, heart rate and blood pressure. The Psycholinguistics Laboratory at Boston University plans uses a […]